diagnostics

Ohio Green Industry Association (OGIA) Presents 2023 Ohio Diagnostic Walk-Abouts for Green Industry Professionals

Learn about the art and science of scouting, diagnosing and controlling of landscape pests, all while earning credits at the same time. These walks are geared to professionals in the green industry including landscapers, garden center employees, nursery growers, arborists and landscape designers and architects. These interactive, hands-on, in-the-moment events are unique alternatives to traditional classroom sessions or passive webinars. Attendees are invited to ask questions and take pictures along the way to customize their educational experience. Walks are led by Retired OSU Extension...
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Amy Stone
Joe Boggs

Upcoming Programs, Oh My

Here are a few upcoming programs to get on your calendars. Registration information to come on websites soon.  All are at Secrest Arboretum at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, except for the Bent Science salons at the Bent Ladder Cider and Winery outside Doylestown, Ohio, and the Why Trees Matter program, at the College of Wooster.  
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Jim Chatfield

Spruce Problem On Commercial Property

  Recently OSU Extensioneers Tim Malinich and Jim Chatfield met with horticulturists at a property in northern Ohio to look at a number of declining spruce trees. Most of the spruces on the property appeared healthy but a number had needle browning and and branch dieback, ranging from minor to severe.

  Some of the needle discoloration ascended the tree in somewhat of a spiral pattern, sometimes it was more complete, with some trees if not dead or dying, at the least becoming aesthetic liabilities. There was no evidence on the spruces at this property of any significant infectious...

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Jim Chatfield